Qtumd and Qtum-Cli options

I want to run a node with Qtumd as an automatic daemon,then I wonder how can I see the data like (connections, balance, and other info that GUI provides) ..only option is to use CLI from another terminal and connect over rpc right?

But, having hard time connecting with CLI it doenst like the user parameters and always look for qtum.conf file. Is there any good example of a qtum.conf file somewhere?